 Homer is not more decidedly the first of heroic poets, Shakespeare is not more decidedly the first of dramatists, Demosthenes is not more decidedly the first of orators, than Boswell is the first of biographers. He has no second. He has distanced all...  Bookseller's catalogues - Сторінка 82автори: John Eddowes (bookseller.) - 1840Повний перегляд - Докладніше про цю книгу
 | James Baldwin - 1883 - 612 стор.
...dramatists, Demosthenes is not more decidedly the *Dr. Wolcot : The Works qf Peter Pindar, Esq., p. 103. first of orators, than Boswell is the first of biographers. He has no second. He has distanced all his competitors so decidedly that it is not worth while to place them.... | |
 | James Boswell - 1884 - 742 стор.
...his communications in "The Journal of the Tour to the Hebrides." Macaulay was right when he said : " Boswell is the first of biographers. He has distanced...is not worth while to place them. Eclipse is first, and the rest nowhere." Yet this language, strong as it is, exaggerated as many have thought it, is... | |
 | James Boswell - 1884 - 722 стор.
...taught the world what a true biography of a great man should be. Macaulay was right when he said : " Boswell is the first of biographers. He has distanced...is not worth while to place them. Eclipse is first, and the rest nowhere." Yet this language, strong as it is, exaggerated as many have thought it, is... | |
 | Charles William Bardeen - 1884 - 828 стор.
...first of heroic poets, Shakspere is not more decidedly the first of dramatists, Demosthenes is not more decidedly the first of orators, than Boswell is the first of biographers. He has no second. He has distanced all competitors so decidedly that it is not worth while to place them.... | |
 | Charles William Bardeen - 1884 - 828 стор.
...first of heroic poets, Shakspere is not more decidedly the first of dramatists, Demosthenes is not more decidedly the first of orators, than Boswell is the first of bi-ographers. He has no second. He has distanced all competitors so decidedly that it is not worth while to place them.... | |
 | Charles William Bardeen - 1884 - 828 стор.
...first of heroic poets, Shakspere is not more decidedly the first of dramatists, Demosthenes is not more decidedly the first of orators, than Boswell is the first of biographers. He has no second. He has distanced all competitors so decidedly that it is not worth while to place them.... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1909 - 216 стор.
...repeat. 'Shakespeare,' he says, 'is not more decidedly the first of dramatists, Demosthenes is not more decidedly the first of orators, than Boswell is the first of biographers. He has no second. He has distanced all his competitors so decidedly that it is not worth while to place them.... | |
 | Samuel Austin Allibone - 1899 - 1172 стор.
...heroic Poets. — Sbakupeare Is not more decidedly the first of Dramatists. — Demosthenes is not more decidedly the first of Orators, than Boswell Is the first of biographers. He haa distanced all his competitors so decidedly that it Is not worth while to place them : Kcllpso Is... | |
 | James Morgan Hart - 1901 - 186 стор.
...first of heroic poets, Shakespeare is not more decidedly the first of dramatists, Demosthenes is not more decidedly the first of orators, than Boswell is the first of biographers. — MACAULAY. But, my lord, you may quit the field of business, though not the field of danger; and,... | |
 | Wisconsin. Department of Public Instruction - 1902 - 512 стор.
...more decidedly the flrst of orators, than Boswell Is the first of biographers. lie lias no second. lie has distanced all his competitors so decidedly that it Is not worth while to place them." — From editor's preface. Selections from this should be read by the classes In English literature.... | |
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